The Pilot Library for Novice MPI Programmers

作者：Carter John D^*; Gardner William B; Grewal Gary

来源：ACM Sigplan Notices, 2010, 45(5): 351-352.

DOI：10.1145/1837853.1693509

• Design
• Languages
• high-performance computing
• cluster programming
• C
• MPI
• collective operations
• deadlock detection

The Pilot library is a new method for programming MPI-enabled clusters in C, targeted at novice parallel programmers. Formal elements from Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP) are used to realize a process/channel model of parallel computation that reduces opportunities for deadlock and other communication errors. This simple model, plus an application programming interface (API) styled after C's formatted I/O, are designed to make the library easy to learn. The Pilot library exists as a thin layer on top of any standard Message Passing Interface (MPI) implementation, preserving MPI's portability and efficiency, with little performance overhead arising as result of Pilot's additional features.

• 出版日期2010-5